 Hey guys welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. Today I wanted to share with you guys a quick and easy Valentine's Day sugar cookie bar recipe. It just calls for a few simple ingredients. You are going to need a small package of sugar cookie mix and this is the size that makes 12 cookies and I actually pick these up from the Dollar Tree, but they do have them in the grocery store so you need a small package the kind that makes 12 cookies. You are going to need some Valentine's Day themed M&Ms and so these have the pink and white and the purple and the red and then you are going to need a half a stick of butter and Then you're going to need one egg. I just happened to crack mine So I will tell you that my egg is room temperature and so is my butter is room temperature and has been softened So if you're interested in learning how to make these quick and easy Valentine's Day bars, stay tuned All right guys, so let's get started with these bars But I do want to mention that I guess maybe a year a year and a half or so ago I made Cupid's Crunch, which is another Valentine's Day snack that I really really like a lot And I'll make sure to link it in the description box, but let's get started So I have a large mixing bowl here and I am just going to add in my sugar cookie mix So here we go And the great thing about these bars is that you can change it up for the holiday So, you know, we're doing the pink and the white and so forth for Valentine's Day But if you're making these for Christmas, you can have you know a different colored M&M or Halloween or whatever it is So anyway dropped in my sugar cookie mix now I'm going to add in my half a stick of softened butter and I'm gonna get started kind of mixing that And I will say this mixture is going to be pretty thick. So you are going to need some elbow grease So I've got my butter in there and I would definitely recommend using butter and not margarine for this recipe I'm going to add in my egg and as you'll notice it's not all combined I need the wetness of the egg in order to really kind of make this stick. So Okay, and so now I'm going to add in half of these M&Ms and these are just plain M&Ms the recipe calls for one cup total, but you're going to add half a cup to the The cookie dough here and then we're going to add the rest of them to the top So I'm going to add half and that's about half And you're just gonna combine them as you can see the dough is thick, but it's also really really sticky All right. And so here you go. Here it is all mixed together. And so you are going to place your dough Let me show you and an eight by eight pan You're gonna line it with foil and then what I did is I have about a half of a tablespoon of butter that I use to To grease the pan. So here it is So I am going to put the mixture in the pan and then I'll come back and show you what it looks like Okay guys, so I spread all of this in the pan What I did first because this dough is super thick super thick and sticky I did spray my hands with some cooking spray And it is a labor of love to kind of get it spread out in this pan because it is so sticky You can use cooking spray on your hands or butter whatever your preference is But here it is in my little greased cookie in my little greased pan And I can't remember if I mentioned that I do have my oven preheating to 350 So now all I'm going to do is sprinkle the extra M&M's On top kind of press down a little bit And then what you're going to do is bake this in a preheated oven 350 degrees for about 14 15 minutes or until the edges are golden brown So I'm going to stick these in the oven And then I will show you the finished product once they've had a chance to cool and I cut them into squares for you guys So I'll see you in a few minutes. Hey guys, so here are the bar cookies I let them cool completely before I cut them up So I did cook these initially for 15 minutes and they weren't Brown enough for me. So I did put them back in the oven for another five minutes When I did that the M&Ms did crack a little bit on top So do be aware that that may happen if you stick them in or cook there bake them I should say for a little bit longer. So these are a softer bar cookie. Let me show you one So these are softer A soft bar cookie. They're not like a crunchy bar cookie. They're pretty moist. So I'm do be aware of that, but this makes just like the perfect amount for Howard and I it's just a small pan eight by eight Of course, you could double this recipe if you'd like Of course, you just double the ingredients and double the pan size So I hope you guys like this quick and easy Valentine's Day snack again, don't forget to check out the description box for my cupids crunch mix I made that video probably about a year and a half or so ago when I first started youtube But it's one of my favorite recipes that I have on our channel So I hope you guys like this video If you did, please make sure to give us a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed to our channel I hope that you'll do so. See you guys next time